Name: The Metropolitan Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Released: 2026-05-30

The Metropolitan Opera: El Último Sueño De Frida Y Diego (2026)

Release Date

May 30, 2026

Official Site

https://www.metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/2025-26-season/el-ultimo-sueno-de-frida-y-diego/

Information

Genre

Release Date

May 30, 2026

MPAA Rating

Duration

158 minute(s)

Production Budget

Studio

Official Site

https://www.metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/2025-26-season/el-ultimo-sueno-de-frida-y-diego/

Cast and Crew

Director

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Deborah Colker

Screenwriter

Gabriela Lena Frank

Starring

Angel Blue
Carlos Álvarez
Gabriella Reyes
Isabel Leonard
Nils Wanderer
Lianne Coble-Dispensa

Synopsis

American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times).